I will just copy and paste from the included ReadMe



Application is attached Hope this solves the problem for the people that are having this problem.

Note: Feel free to leave comments/feedback, however I will be gone for the next week so I can't respond till I get back

EDIT: As of July 8th, new version attached

I get an window says: The command gaves back an result <> zero.
Seems thats an error message from the system (applescript envioriment), not from an information output by debug code in script.

Wouldn't "usb fix 1.3.mpkg" be a better option?

comparing apples with horses. the .mpkg INSTALLS kexts, ~pcwiz fixer only LOADS a kexts if needed = a totally different ballgame.

My hotplug fix (if needed) has so far been a script which touches the extensions folder, which, however, is a bit of an overdose. This approach is more efficient.

Still, in case anybody still encounters hotplug problems despite of ~pcwiz fixer, just touch the XT folder ..

Hm...does that mean that the kext is not loaded on your system?

I have this message "The command gaves back an result <> zero." too

same problem....

i would recommand everyone to read the "USB NOT MOUNT FIX ...." post
it says that generally this problems is caused by mismatching versions of kernel and system.kext

Weird...I tested it and it was fine. I won't be at my hack for another week so I'll check it out then.

1. If no USB Stick : yes it is not loaded (kextstat does not show it), this <> ERROR

2. If USB Stick: it is loaded automatic by system (kextstat shows it), no error message


Does this mean, your tool may help people which usbmass. is not loaded if they plug in an USB Stick ?
But then will get the error ??

Ok, I will take a look at this back when I am at my hack.

~pcwiz, until you have refined the query if the IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext is loaded or not: attached is a lil script that will load the kext without checking. If one runs the correct system/kernel combination and the kext is already loaded, it should simply detect the kext being loaded, and nothing.

kext is loaded with sudo, so if not logged in as root, one will be asked for the admin PW.

If logged in as root, simply add an entry to your account's loggin items (check the box to run hidden). If usually you do rather not log in as root you might simply run the script on demand (desktop, dock whatever).

The script closes with killall Terminal so there is no windows to close.

(Adding the kextload to rc.common as some people suggest does NOT work)

.. and the same thing as above as an app .. (gracias to ~pcwiz for his lil how2)

Lol no problemo

don't you love it when your students apply right away what you teach them ..

Hey hey hey bugsBunny I made that happen! pcwiz creates some good stuff

OK, I've attached a new version of the script on the first post. Hopefully this fixes the errors, test it and tell me how it goes. Basically it checks if the kext is loaded using the kextstat command and if it is not loaded, it will load it.

~pcwiz, you might want to check this out

Hey thanks for putting that up! I'm sure it will help many people You should also mention 2 more things:

1) "with administrator privileges" part is not necessary unless the command needs to be run as root (with sudo superuser privileges), but most commands are
2) If you have multiple commands you want to execute, you can put in multiple "do shell script" lines, one for each command

Still getting the error zero on a P4 System.

same thing here. It is detecting that the kext is already loaded. So that message would only have to be suppressed in the script, that's all, other than that it is working.

Ah...I get it. I need to add an error handler for it

yes, darn, this is the pro way of expressing it. Man, I LEARNED stuff like that (Pascal, Basic, VBasic, JavaScript, Action Script, a lil bit of bash/ php/ pearl), but sometimes my brain doesn't provide the right words right away ..

"So that message would only have to be suppressed in the script" I'll fix this up when I have time

Not working here either.

OK another new one attached. This time I added an error handler--

iam insatalling leo4allv3final.
and i got this error dont know how to fix it.
i think it is a usb problem.
thanks

Hi PcWiz,

I've modified your script slightly to get rid of those non zero errors, see attached.
Apparently when grep doesn't find a string it returns a 1 and apple script perceives it as a failed run. Without grep script actually runs faster and avoids the above problem.

I am seeing com.apple.iokit.IOUSBMassStorageClass loaded after running the script, but after some time it gets unloaded. Any ideas?

Thanks for the fix Yeah, you'd have to set it to run as a background process and to rerun it every few minutes, if that happens.

yes, as a daemon. However the best solution is to always have same version of kernel + sys.kext.. but we all know that